Chhavi Rajawat is an Indian politician. She is the sarpanch her village Soda, 60 km from Jaipur.
Chhavi Rajawat was born in Rajasthan. She is an alumna of Rishi Valley School, Bangalore, Lady Shri Ram College for Women (University of Delhi) and a management graduate from Indian Institute of Modern Management, Pune.
Today Chhavi heads NREGA meetings in her village dressed in jeans and T-shirt, she is fast emerging as the changing face of rural Rajasthan. “It should change. There is so much one can do,” she says.
“In fact, my business management degree is helping me take care of the village better. It is a sort of social work that runs in my blood,” says the woman who became sarpanch on February 4.
And it is a change that Chhavi attributes to her grandfather Brig Raghubir Singh. As sarpanch of Soda, years ago, he had made Chhavi’s mother drive through the village without a veil. Villagers looked surprised as the car entered but no one uttered a word.
Rajawat says she waded into politics, backed by the villagers. “There was an uprising against the sarpanch. The villagers did not want him and though I was pitched against his wife and another woman, I managed to win. The villagers see me as the daughter of the village and wanted me to contest,” she says.
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